Main loop

[gamehack]

Hi all,

I was wondering what's the way to create your own main loop? Say I want
to index file and the indexing should be happening in the main loop and
when there are no files to index, the process will just run as a
daemon. I know this is possible with a simple while(1) but what a about
a true main loop?

Regards

[Vladimir S. Oka]

gamehack wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering what's the way to create your own main loop? Say I
want to index file and the indexing should be happening in the main
loop and when there are no files to index, the process will just run
as a daemon. I know this is possible with a simple while(1) but what a
about a true main loop?

Regards

I don't really understand what you mean by the "true main loop",
especially if it's not:

int main(void)
{
while (1)
{
/* do whatever */;
}
}

This is a perfectly acceptable and understandable way of running stuff
"forever" in a C program. Could you clarify, please?

Cheers

Vladimir

PS
There are also perfectly non-standard and non-portable ways of having
some function other than main() running as your "C" application, but I
don't think that's what you meant.

--
Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One and a half.

[Kenneth Brody]

gamehack wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering what's the way to create your own main loop? Say I want
to index file and the indexing should be happening in the main loop and
when there are no files to index, the process will just run as a
daemon. I know this is possible with a simple while(1) but what a about
a true main loop?

What's not "true main" about:

int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
while (1)
{
... everything here ...
}
return(0);
}

If you don't like that for some reason:

int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
while (1)
{
main2(argc,argv);
}
return(0);
}

int main2(int argc,char *argv[])
{
... put everything that was "main()" here ...
}

What, exactly, are you trying to do?

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